Okay, I'm the most embarrassed resident of Somerville

Ohhhhh, do I have egg all over my face. Remember how a while back we had a long saga about being screwed out of $900 by our stupid mortgage company, and being unable to get our money back from the city? Well, today, months after our final request for a refund, we finally got around to sending them a grouchy letter. ( It was more politely worded than this, but in essence... )

Well, that was well and good since it had been so long we were sure they were stonewalling us. However, HLM came back from mailing it, and guess what he found in our mailbox? An envelope from the Somerville treasury. And guess what was in it? One check. For $930.08. After much cursing and trying to figure out if we could get the post office to pull the first letter out of the bin for us (no... it's illegal), we had to send a chaser letter saying "urp, never mind, thanks, and please disregard". At least we got that letter into the same bin as the first one.

*blush*

We couldn't have known, but, yeeks, what were the odds on that one? I'm thrilled that we have our $900 back. But I am really really hoping that McGinn (the treasurer) has a secretary who will get both letters at once, ignore them, and never even tell him the office heard from us.

Whoa

We just heard a VERY loud, VERY fast plane fly over our house, low.
Sounded military. Sounded like they were in a hurry. I hope nothing is wrong somewhere nearby...

And you know, before 9/11/01 hearing a plane like that wouldn't have scared me. :/